![]() Andy Warhol would have been pleased with Jonathan Prentice, a personable young fellow from Auckland, New Zealand, who was the “first” person in the world to buy Windows 95. The hypestorm before, on, and since that day has been unrelenting, usually bordering on the absurd and the vulgar. Yet all four of them could have landed in a flying saucer on Parliament Hill on Augand we’d never have known about it. Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and John Lennon went through similar, if somewhat less mythopoeic, transmogrifications. Overweight, drug-addicted rock star goes from has-been to messiah-in-waiting just by dying relatively young in a particularly messy way. Our society has always been good at hyperbole look at the whole Elvis phenomenon.
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