This is just terriffic, one of the very coolest novels online.

It’s a good story, to start with, but that gets lost in the fog of the sheer volume of creative work on line.

No risk of that with "Disdain", though.  Oh, no.  Each chapter starts off with a way cool picture from a classic B&W film (the kind that Larry Winchester, the putative author of "Disdain", might have wished he was making) and ends up with a video of sixties music, invoking the zeitgeist of the story.  That’s neat enough, by all means.

But that’s just scratching the surface of this magnum opus:  it has not only a biography of Winchester, but a <i>filmography</i>!  A little imdb type capsule, with stills, of Winchester’s classic films like "Calling All Call Girls".

Then there are the collected poems of one of the characters.  This is not a "novel", it’s a way of life.

We thought we were pretty cool using art and tooltips and videos in MAYAN CALENDAR GIRLS: this guy humbled us up in a hot minute.

But who knows, you might gobble all that stuff up and be hungry for more.  Don’t despair, because there are four more novels you can click to from the page:  including some with <i>hundreds</i> of chapters or episodes or whatever we are going to call these online things.

Dan Leo (At play in the fields of the lord of the dance, as he’d have us believe)  is a freakin’ genius.  We kneel so he can cut off our forelocks and wave them in triumph.

You want a standard to shoot for . . . "Disdain" will definitely, absolutely do you just fine.  Good luck.

By the way, Trarantino could actually take a tip or two from Leo . . . there’s a lot more reverence for olde time cinema here than giving a grindhouse girl a machine gun leg.

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