Go Wildcats! 🏀

Thanks for having me @amewington.bsky.social and @davidsoncollege.bsky.social, and for this awesome swag 😎

Thank you @anderlouis.bsky.social for meeting my seminar students to discuss Bogan "War & Peace." In a fit of Tolstoyan "live-in-the-moment" enthusiasm, I forgot to take pics with that larger group, so here's a few of us yesterday w/ the Bogan translation! Yay to creativity & multiple Englishes!

Yesss! I love these photos so much. Thanks for the fun chat Davidson College. So good to meet ya.

Ozempic has a jingle? Never change America, you beautiful maniacs! 😂

Twitch Twitch is the world

Most people use twitch for video games... I use it to Livestream Tolstoy being Aussiefied. No man's land >>> Twitch.tv/anderlouis

Live from Max Watts
Melbourne, Feb 8

📸- RobCuzens (@lordrobsatan)

AnderLouis - Twitch In which we drink coffee and rewrite 'War & Peace' in Australian (Tolstoy > Literature > Aussie) !helping

Going live on Twitch to translate War and Peace into Australian, communally. As you do. See ya there :) www.twitch.tv/anderlouis #tolstoy #livestreaming

It's been almost 10 years since we released our album "Adrestia", and less than a year since releasing it on vinyl!

Tracks to check out:
-"Choke"
-"Petrichor"
-"Adrestia"

#Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowSpinning #Metal #Alternative #VLMF

-Load into venue at 1:30pm
-Soundcheck at 3:00pm
-Hit the stage at 10:00pm.
-Load out at 11:30
-Get home at 1:00am

Worth every minute for every second I get to spend on stage with people I love, doing what I love.

Verona Lights - Machina (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Verona Lights

Last year we dropped our newest single, "Machina", a thinly veiled "no thanks" to generative AI and its impact on creative spaces, the environment, and the integrity of those who use it.

Humans make art for humans.
We hope you like it 🤘💜

#VLMF
#FuckAI

youtu.be/5q6Ax5wzYFI?...

This is my band 🌞

Amanda Ewington and Ander Louis sitting together in a Melbourne street café.

Amanda Ewington and Ander Louis sitting together in a Melbourne street café. She holds a copy of his “bogan translation” of Tolstoy’s War & Peace.

From Bluesky connection to meeting irl in Melbourne, what a treat to chat with @anderlouis.bsky.social about his translation of Tolstoy’s W&P into Aussie, and his other literary and musical pursuits!

Leah has the SICKEST newsletters. 🤘

Leah, brilliant meeting you this year. You smashed '25, and onwards and upwards in '26!!!

The 'bogan' Australian giving War & Peace an irreverent remake Ander Louis has written a new version of Leo Tolstoy's classic Russian novel in Australian slang.

This is all your fault @leahreich.com 🫶
www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm 6 months late, but thanks! Appreciate ya. 👍

AnderLouis - Twitch Translating 'War and Peace' into Australian on '93 IBM Model-M

Working on Tolstoy translation on twitch.tv/anderlouis for the next hour or so. (and every Friday 9:30AM AEST)

That closing line ... 🤌
For what it's worth, you don't really need to 'use' excel. I've progressed quite far in my career by just saying the words 'pivot table' occasionally.

It's been 1+ year since my last podcast ep. With big stuff going on, I felt compelled to drop a new ep... only to realised in the previous ep I made a rare Promise/Guarantee combo: to NOT talk about myself or my art in the next ep. Challenge accepted!
ayearofwarandpeace.podbean.com/e/ander-loui...

Haha thank you, you've made my day. Your poor unsuspecting students. 😂
Looking forward to hearing how it goes!

My dumbest idea went BONKERS ... YouTube video by Ander Louis

I've felt inspired to film the recent whirlwind events, showing the impact of a viral moment on an unsuspecting family-man. Pretty proud of this video, I hope you'll join me for the premiere youtu.be/KYgp76HezOY?...

Morning! News from Australia, Bogan Tolstoy is beating Actual Tolstoy on the Amazon Best Sellers list (Russian Literature category, naturally.) in other news, we live in bizarro world.

Something I've learned this last week or so... Journalists are SO good at what they do. It takes me about a month to explain this insane idea, and they just absolutely nail it in 90 seconds. This 'reel' is the best. www.instagram.com/p/DJ0-VjJpADD/

Thanks Royce! Looks like we've vindicated each other, mutually. (*Lights cigarette)

‘I dropped a C-bomb into Tolstoy’: one man’s quest to translate War and Peace into ‘bogan Australian’ Melbourne man Ander Louis has translated hundreds of pages of the 19th century classic line by line to include Ford Falcons, wankers and drongos

Yo @leahreich.com, you're namedchecked in The Guardian. We are now eternally bonded under this headline 🙃 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

War and Peace: A bonza read mate! - ABC listen Translating Tolstoy's classic of literature to Aussie slang.Translating Tolstoy's classic of literature to Aussie slang

Oi Bsky! Cos of you lot I was on the radio. Dno whether to thank you or spank you. (Happy to do both lmk). Here it is: Nightlife with Suzanne Hill, ABC Radio.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Thanks Suzanne for having me on to talk about a very dumb idea as if it isn't one. #putyourdumbestfootforward

Also tell your mean brain to shut up. You're brilliant.

War and Peace Aussie Translation - Writing Streams - YouTube

What stung about that accusation was not that it insults the quality of my work. (Obvs the work is dumb and I'm an idiot). It was how it undermines the fact that I LOVE the work. It's my dream job. Why tf would I outsource it to AI?

BTW, thought you might like this: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Great share! I thank you Leah for defending me recently, when someone speculated that my project was AI generated. It was an easy defence: "he released it in 2019, how could it be?", but made me think dang, if I'd released it a few years later, an accusation like that would be hard to refute.

Hi Bluesky! Thank you @leahreich.com, for finding my obscure project and sharing it. Genuinely changed my life. And thank you everyone for the frankly ridiculous amount of kindness in the comments. My mind is blown. Love you guys, keep chucklin, keep bein silly. 👍