Good dog energy goes a long way to shaking off heavy human vibes, and I get saddled with plenty of those.
I was a teenage girl during Britpop, and you watch the footage of early Blur concerts, and they're all in Doc Martens and jeans and no make-up, and there's this brilliant, puppyish, I'm-just-being-a-human-being kind of vibe.
It's a very powerful read and I can still remember how it made me feel: sad and angry but also hopeful, because there's such a positive vibe around the human spirit in that book, and the power of friendship and love to overcome even the worst injustices in the world.
Though if you pet him gently he does have that sorta pink fleshy human vibe a bit like the chilly skin on a dead little girl's knee he might be unearthly and just visiting after all.
In debates he exudes a far more somnambulant vibe; he's a human incarnation of the Travelodge sleepy bear.
One of the initiatives of Microsoft Research's Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment (VIBE) division, meanwhile, is to explore human-computer interaction.
(In a recent interview with Vibe, she posited that if you're human "you're already crazy," which is a reassuring departure from earlier bromides).
Perhaps that edgy vibe helped Freud develop his theories of human psychology, it was also where spies like Philby learned their trade in the 1930s.
Smaller fish perhaps, but each with a uniquely British vibe that somehow made them more fun; more human.
The narrow streets, the graffiti-covered walls, the constant human traffic across them, the safety behind closed doors, keep the vibe shifting between tense and slack.
