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Frankly speaking, Lisa, cut the classist bullshit, so-to-speak.
--DHC
08/08

Hey Matriix! Write to me at lisaccarver@aol.com and I'll tell you everything and you can tell me everything!
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07/26

Hey lisa, long time no talk. Do you feel 80's? i do. --matrriix
--mat
07/25

Hi Lisa, I am a writer living in New Hampshire. I work for a small but rather progressive paper. We are the slap in the face that the Union Leader has been asking for. If you are from NH you know what I'm talking about! However, I don't make a living wage. I don't want to be rich, but eating three meals a day would be nice. I'd love the opportunity to write about things that interest me instead of writing about what happened at the Aldermen meeting last night. For instance, that article you wrote for Playboy about the panties was great. I could totally see myself writing something in that vein. Please give me some advice. Or maybe, when you turn down a writing job, you could refer them to me.
--MB
07/21

Lisa, good stuff, as always. Miss reading your work, hope to read you again soon!
--M
07/10

Oh...writerdown25@hotmail.com. I'm dying to know how everyone is doing. I just disappeared. I feel bad.
--MM
07/09

Lisa! You don't know me, but I'm an old friend of Dave's...from about 4-5 years ago when we all hung out at the Elevator drops loft, in Cambridge, Dave Stahl's, The Middle...et al. First I would like to say that I don't know why I didn't pay any attention to your writing years ago! My friend Beth (you know her, I think)tried to turn me on to your writing years ago, but as a former escort, young mother and newly married gal (Brian D. of Helium, Dumptruck) myself, I was scared of what you had to say! I was trying to live the puritan lifestyle. I was the frigid ex-prostitute...I never wanted to be. Why was I so embarassed?? Everyone else thought it was cool. Ugh. While you were writing all this COOL ASS shit, I was writing for the now defunct website, Themestream, and I must say I was inhibited and pretending to write from a fictional stand-point...saying, "Owe no! That's not me! That's just my character that is having rape fantasies and wants to be stalked!" Either way, they ate it up and I was the number one short-story writer for quite some time...so I guess that's good. Anyhow, I'd love to see what the old gang is up to! You seem very cool! What is your Dave up to? Dave Stahl? Elizabeth? Adam? Any shows? I'm so out of the loop. Just got divorced and trying to find out if I've still got what it takes smooze. And journal writing is all I can muster in the writing department for now. Oh, and I'm an escort again, for a short time. It's actually what caused my divorce...my ex-didn't like to see me so happy when I got remarried and took me for a custody battle two weeks after we returned from our honeymoon. I couldn't afford a lawyer, without going back. The divorce is sad, but my kid has to come first. I've have some guilt, but I'll get over it. I was brought up catholic...can you tell!? Maria Get in touch! Escorts.com "counterculture"
--MM
07/09

That guy is obviously a fruit. Come on.
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06/24

Lisa, the next time you dare to call yourself a writer;read A.M. Holmes' piece. It'll snap you out of it.
--ay
06/22

To the rather unappealingly angry man who attempted to conflate using the term "redneck" with using the term "nigger". I think that if you check with African-American groups in your community, you will find that "nigger" or "nigga" has been reclaimed as a way of ironizing and thus making harmless a heretofore term of abuse. As a certified white trash, redneck girl myself, I think I am justified in saying that Gus's work is more of the same--reclaim it! Be proud of your background! This is not to say that only "true" rednecks can use the term with impunity � la South Park, but rather than if voiced with a sense of IRONY, all things are forgiven. It's the straight-on delivery that stings, not the playful, tongue-in-cheek groove of Mr. Gus. So, go put some sunscreen on your neck or something already.
--Jess
06/18

Gus' poses and expressions are great! They're funny and cheeky, but also coyly gallant. I found it interesting that that very angry-sounding person in the feedback couldn't make their point without veering toward anti-semitism. Eroticizing and exoticizing sub-sets of sub-sets of populations is nothing new. It can be really hateful and lurid, but it doesn't have to be ... Next time, could the [insert race/ethnic group] "sluts" make sexy knowing gonzo faces?
--cp
06/04

whoops, I wrote all of that on the wrong page. I look like a first-time viewer dipshit(which I am). Ignore previous letter.
--ASA
06/03

To the Nerve-ones and Lisa: What a great site. I caught your HBO special a while back and happened to get it on tape - a masterpiece. Please do another. For me, you're hitting your mission right on. Thank you. OK, the point of my letter: Lisa's work and on-air personality are amazing. I am an actor/director/ playwright, and I've been collecting ideas for a while on a play about the unique aspects of the sex industry that deals with not only the obvious elements, but the people behind it. Believe it or not, this thing may turn into a musical (but not a cheesebag, schlocky one). I would love to interview Lisa -- or, if she's not interested or available, anyone who is -- for some stories, feedback, cultural misinterpretations (what a word), anything... If this is the wrong place to ask about this, I'd appreciate it a lot if you could point me somewhere to go (besides to hell or my ass). Thanks a lot and your work is great. Sincerely, Art Almquist Tucson, AZ 85747
--ASA
06/03

That int. was good fun, yr writing's improved; M. Brodsky would chalk that up to recent amateur dentistry, certainly.(See his--xcrable--_X-Man_...) But what of NY Jews anti-WASPisms? You didn't answer that one...
--ziz
06/03

Hm, which kind of fucking stupid bitch am I? I'd say east coast and west coast white trash fucking stupid bitch is my heritage (I grew up back and forth between the two). I don't consider myself a redneck because that branch is from the south, and I never lived there. They got that name from working farms in the sun with a t-shirt on ... red neck, white back. White trash originated in the south as well, but managed to keep their (our) culture when they migrated north and west. Since I'm good with language, I managed to make money, like Tonya Harding did with her skating. I identify with Tonya for many reasons -- former trailer abodes being one, rather pinched and pasty features being another, plus a sad yet bold yearning, though probably no one should describe themself as sad yet bold. I hope I've answered your questions, you incredible charmer.
--Lisa
06/01

What kind of fucking stupid bitch are you? In this article you mention "white trash", "red necks", and talk about growing up in a trailer, as a put down. I don't guess that you have the guts to say NEGGER do you, or talk about "NEGGERS making babies that they don't take care of". This is because you are indeed, gutless, because you have certainly proven that you have the mentality to be a bigot. Its just socially acceptable to say horrible things (being cute) about poor whites, but never blacks or Hispanics. You are a bigot and a coward, and you are not cute with your remarks. And to NERVE, how sensitive you are, saying that "bigotry and sexism" are not cool here, but you print it happily in the Lisa Files. What a bunch of slimy, smug hypocrites you are! How about really doing what you say you believe in, and stop not only words like "bitch" (when used to offend), negger, and spick, but also "white trash", "red neck" and casting dispersions on people who can afford no better than a trailer to live in!!! (I wonder if you are a bunch of "JEWS", I have certainly seen many of them who felt wonderful about putting down "WHITES" (....you know that kind, you know, "THEM"....)
--fjt
06/01

Thank god Nerve still keeps up the great humor. Better than those dysfunctional weird sex drama stories. Oh wait- this is that, only funnier.
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05/31

That's just not right!
--jw
05/30

I was impressed by Lisa Carver. No college, has done alot of traveling, has tried alot of drugs and feels great. San Diego can use more women like her; there just aren't enough happy hour babes in the beachfront bars, you know, the ones that fill the bars up after 530 or 6 pm after working at blue or white collar jobs. I am 56, have a steady girlfriend who also works a second job as a stripper in a "gentlemens club" and we get along quite well. I guess I am old--I still cant hack women with tattoos or metal gear in the flesh. Hell, I thought "Bare Naked Ladies" was a Vegas girlie review until I found out it was four young guys in baggy pants and caps on backwards. Trash talk? Nope. Women who cuss turn me off. I spent two years in a front line combat unit in Germany where foul language was rampant. I am not a prude, but I had to clean up my language too.
--DTK
05/30

Hilarious.
--mean
05/30

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