Accent: Everyone’s a winner in Austin We Are The Lottery League

Side note: This may be my favorite story to write ever. I was surprised when everyone who participated let this awkward journalist tag along through the entire lottery process. Fun times all around. I have more stuff on this story coming up, but for now, here's the story that is published in Accent.

“That’s the whole game,” Erick Sanger said, a participant of the first Austin We Are The Lottery League. “Lottery league is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”

Six drummers and 18 musicians arrived at Red 7 on April 9. Each drummer randomly picked names out of a brown hat in order to form bands that would be performing on stage within 24 hours.

After the names were drawn, the new acquaintances took promo photos and brainstormed names such as Vacation Bible School, Black Mike and the Make a Holes, Boner Patrol, So Long, Judas, Drug Sex, Afrobocop and the Tjöõrd Bjöõrglars.

Read the rest at Accent.