Pique'n Yer Interest

After a lot of dreaming, slow starts and meandering self-promises, I've crossed a few lines lately when it comes to the arts.

The hypothesis: Clever researchers have discovered that a 25-second delay at a vending machine can make the impatient opt for healthier snacks, which are delivered immediately in a pimped-out machine with a special platform that delays the drop-down

Getting from Point A to Point B — and occasionally Point C — in and around Whistler is getting more and more challenging by the week.

Why the f*@# are we still cutting old growth?" This emerged to a friend in a chairlift conversation. Not from a forest-savvy environmentalist, but an investment banker, a champion of the capitalist machine.

Whatever else could be said about Whistler's former MP John Weston, I will always admire the way he campaigned to become our representative for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country prior to the 2008 federal election.

You don't have to zoom out too far from the Whistler bubble to realize we're a blessed lot.

Awards are, at least supposedly, about honouring the best of the best. But it's easy to feel that that's not always the case. A number of Academy Award Best Picture winners, for example, don't hold up well in the light of day.

Iknow the look on the server's face. She is tired. Over it.

For over five years now, five days a week, I've been making the 53-kilometre mad dash up the Sea to Sky Highway from Squamish to Whistler and back again. Lately, the highway has been a ride to remember.

Over the course of reporting a recent feature on drink spiking for Pique ("Invisible violations," Feb. 2, 2017), I was disheartened by how common the problem appears to be in Whistler.