Lisa, just seen your name on here, and was wandering if you are the same ,Lisa Carver, I went to school with. Just curious.
--CW
04/10 |
Hello lisa I'm jerry from long Island. I just wanted to say that your like britney spears
but look ten time better. I watched the jan 27 show, & the scean with you in the bathroom just killed me. I thought that was the funniest shit ever. Will before I make you vomit from all my bullshit writing
I let you go. Keep up the good work and ps I think your show is more sexual then real sex.
--gfs
01/28 |
Hi, my name is Jackie, and I used Rollerderby as a shield against snotty girls and boys whod make up songs about me.
Anyhow, Im doing a zine called Sluts and Monsters, and would be elated if you would be willing to contribute ANYthing for it. Best wishes and I hope alls well.
Jackie Simon
--JS
01/16 |
You are missed. To live vicariously, is the cowards life, but a life it is. I look forward to your new series of exposes'.
--ml
10/13 |
Lisa-
I stumbled upon your diary by chance three years ago. I became captivated and touched by your honesty to us and your introspection. Times are changing, life has been altered, I respect your decisions, wish you a happy and full life. Thank you for allowing us a peak. No one deserves full access but you and yours. Go do that.
--OMH
09/18 |
I read the entries from start to finish, having only discovered them a few months ago. I saw it coming that Lisa would eventually move beyond the diary but it's still a fantastic experience to have lived with her, felt how she felt during all her wild times. And I sort of fell in love with her and Dave and her crazy antics. Thank you Lisa for blessing us with a unique and entertaining look at your life.
--LB
09/18 |
Was it last week or the week before - I can't remember when, but I was reading through the NY Times magazine and there you were, Lisa. A few weeks before that you'd been on some panel in Glamour, and I thought, take these together and they signify something, even if I don't know what. You're not quite the establishment yet, but I'm looking forward to the time when you will be. It's the absolute perfect time for you to protect the privacy of your marriage, to discover the power of mystery. All good fortune to you. You are the dream of Virginia Woolf, the answer to Norman Mailer, and if you're not Shakespeare's sister you are the writer she will read and come to know herself through. You are something that has never been before.
--KMB
09/16 |
Atta girl, Lisa. I knew you had it in you. I'll be reading, as always.
--fhog
09/13 |
Excellent. Good for you. Best of luck with the Lisa Stories ... we'll all be reading!
--hx
09/13 |
Lisa, I am so very, very happy you are doing this. You are making your marriage deeper, more meaningful and richer. Hooray!!! I have been wanting and waiting for this.
Michael
--JMH
09/12 |
You really are wonderful. I have this theory that we all have flashes of brilliance in our own little worlds -- you have more flashes, and real brilliance, and your world is bigger because of your vulnerability. I envy you that I really do. A couple years ago I stumbled onto Nerve and you and if I were the single wild gypsy I used to be I'd find my way back there and interface with you and some of the other nerve-rockers. You'll be around - I'll be around. It's a good thing....
--BC
09/11 |
Sweet. Ulitmately, your personal life is all that matters. I think the only regrets people have deal with relationships and travel, so focusing on a marriage is far more important than a silly column. After all, this is just a job. Hope you don't stop emailing, though. I'd miss our discussions about responsible parenting in the face of unrelenting coolness. Good luck, Lisa.
--JDV
09/11 |
Good move Lisa! The Diaries will certainly be missed by all thoughtful hedonists out here, but I'm certain you'll feel happy about your choice ;) Dave's a lucky fellow to have someone like you. And I mean that considering how you have always enjoyed publicly writing about your experiences and now you are ending The Lisa Diaries out of respect for him. Ain't that sweet? Everyone is looking for a Lisa these days!
--LL
09/10 |
I'm going to call Lisa on one thing: we were NOT reading about her sex life. We were reading about her love life (huge difference) and the classic characters that inhabited said life. I'm equivocal about the "new column"- only because what got me in the last one was the characters- not the sex. The humor and the people involved drug me in, week after week. I'm going to request one small thing, Lisa, restraining the contents of your marriage is fine;however, can you keep on with the characters? I read tons of great stuff on nerve- but it's all about confessionals- people I'll never know or see doing things... well, that we all might eventually do or have done. You humanized this- and I loved that- the hilarity of the people who happened to walk into your life. Or maybe they were in fact not hilarious you just made them so. I ask that you keep on keeping on with them, the people, the humanity of the whole thing. That is where you get funny, and I love it. Your polls are cute, but not as fun as your goofball consorts. Just a thought, & all the best
--sls
09/10 |
It seems as if all of my favorite sites are going away - first a couple of my favorite humor/culture sites went away. then a relationship ditty i read sometimes. and now Lisa, one of my most favorite of all. :( Hopefully Nerve will keep innovating in content, and we'll see something that will ALMOST be able to replace the weekly reading that you've provided us for so long. thanks lisa. best of luck.
--TA
09/10 |
Wow. I wouldn't have thought you could stop this - I wonder if you can. Good luck to you. Good luck to Dave, too, I think - maybe everything that used to go here will now have to go to him. He signed up for better AND worse, I guess. As a partially compulsive personal-data-spiller, good luck in trying to find balance (ha! who's balanced?)
I don't know why the hell I needed to read your diary, and why I'm now definitely going to miss it. It *is* like an affair, or it *was*, and that's probably the most daring thing I've done in recent times, read about your sex life, so that's a little sad.
So, yeah. Um. Thanks, and bye.
--AMT
09/10 |
hi lisa
a while ago, you and dave were going through a very dangerous time in your marriage...lying in bed and asking, are we getting a divorce?
i had just met you but implored you to please please just try being normal for a while. you claimed that you WERE normal. good one.
now, i know you don't listen to me, but i am glad you are doing this. your diaries are there, like a seinfeld rerun, to be enjoyed for a long long time. your next project will be just as good. or not. i'm happy for you and dave. i'm glad i know you.
--dl
09/10 |
Yes, at first this was lovely, Then I just started feeling for Dave, thinking, This man seems to LOVE her unconditionally and she is not taking it and crushing it between her fingers and accepting it for all its worth. You should be so thankful for his love, and I hope you guys are happy together for a very very long time....
a hopeless romantic ( in my own way)
--gde
09/10 |
yes your not exactly leaving...but I worry that when I read your new colum, my stomach will feel the same. Gone will be that accident waiting to happen feeling. That crash that forced us to look in the first place. The fear is that I will read your new colum and nothing in me will have changed. Instead of a crash I'll just be looking at the same open field I see every morning on my way to work.
A nice field, granted, but still just a field.
--slk
09/10 |
I'll miss reading about your extravagant life.
A former contest winner,
--dcx
09/10 |
Lisa-
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us. I'll really miss reading your diary, but congratulations in moving on. It's important to be able to recognize when something is no longer good or necessary for you and to be willing to let it go. Not that you need or want this affirmation, but I'll say it anyway: good for you.
--BL
09/10 |
Viva Lisa!
So long and thanks for all the fish
--
09/10 |
Lisa, I have been reading your diaries for about a year. Not fanatically, exactly, but I make sure I never miss one. I find them fascinating, and sexy, and weird, and incredible yet completely credible.
And yet I'm really glad you are stopping.
I will miss them, but I'm glad you are stopping.
Of course hearing this will probably make you want to not stop after all.
Maybe you can stop anyway.
--DW
09/10 |
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