The Laundry Baller!

Humphrey is pleased to share yet another blockbuster trailer with his friends and family. He has, in a previous blog post, described his views on unpaid household labour. He continues to enjoy domestic tasks immensely, and excels at laundering just about anything. He is delighted to combine that personal interest with his new-found film production skills.

A Bone-Chilling, Humphrey Productions Summer Blockbuster

Coming this summer: Watch  Humphrey confront the most terrifying entity to all dogs in this bone-chilling horror movie. Featuring the Dogs of the Shepways: Humphrey, Nala, Joey, Bouche, and Believe.
(And for anyone concerned, those are NOT real candles and no dogs were put in any danger for the making of this film!)

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Watching the storm...

...it was quite a downpour

But the sun came out soon after

Rolling around, then...

...catching some Zs

Enjoying the garden, apres-swim

Admiring his new grill

It's springtime! And Humphrey can finally speak!

Dog, not a dog? An existential crisis.

"People tell me I'm sweet, does that mean I'm a baked good?"
An entire breed of dogs have found themselves questioning their existence this month, thanks to the "Chihuahua or Muffin" meme making its way around the internet. "One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become - does that mean I'm going to become a muffin?" asked Linda, a soulful-eyed Chihuahua aimlessly wandering Toronto's Bayview Village Mall. "I'm not going near that bakery, though."

Via @YMPhillips and @teenybiscuit on Twitter

W Network celebrity and canine Master of Flip Chubbs Wilson was recently weighed in on the controversy:

Dog is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. Such as a muffin breakfast. Say, you're not going to eat that, are you, Kortney?

Rejected Bath & Body Works Fragrances

Humphrey loves all things olfactory! Much to his surprise, the following were rejected by pervasive soap retailer Bath & Body Works...

Scintilla of Reason

California Callous

Warm Sugared Gefilte

Existential Despair

Autumn Compost

All About Raymond

Tingling Foot

Cactus Flower Caucus

Don’t Touch Me There

Swirling Rubbish

Damp Shi-Tzu

Merlot and Broken Dreams

Eternally Carp

A Thousand Lies

Rush Hour Manspread

Moist Sock

Hipster Beard

Festering Discomfort

Moonlit Chernobyl Glow

Island Leakage

#YULEbeSubversive

It's that time of year again - for more subversion. According to the Columbia Journalism Review, Pinto and Nemorin's Elf on the Shelf controversy was resurrected by social media when last year's elf-centric Washington Post article went viral (again) a year after its initial publication (according the publisher, reaching 450,000 new reads in this first week of December!

Never one to shy away from politics, Humphrey had a "Very [Xavier] Powerman Holiday" photo shoot with none other than St. Nick, who read him Karl Marx's Capital while a sneaky elf looked on. Humphrey's guardian read up on surveillance (sort of) through the classic Graydon Carter masterpiece.

#YULEbeSubversive 2015

It was all good fun, and Humphrey re-watched that elf video which as become a holiday tradition in its third year:





He also participated in lots of decorating at his home, which is the best way to kick of a subversive stretch.

Little sparkly bird in glittery nests in the dining room.

Then the birds get more flamboyant as you approach the living room, especially these on the mantle.

The tree top was so dope, bird dropped his mic.....

....and it's still there at the base of the tree!

Yes, it's festive, alright

"“As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive
accumulation are anything but idyllic,”
Santa read to Humphrey. 
"No wonder this guy wears red," Humphrey thought to himself. 

See you on the flippity!