There’s a familiar local restaurant (that is, its NYC counterpart) reference in Elizabeth Wurtzel’s latest polarizing spew of unhappy humblebrag:
But I don’t think I really want to be going to the new P. T. Anderson movie and Mission Chinese with someone new when I’m 85. And I don’t think anyone will want to be doing that with me.
I sure hope P.T. Anderson is still making movies when Elizabeth is 85.
 reference in Elizabeth Wurtzel’s latest polarizing spew of unhappy humblebrag: But I don’t think I really want to be going to the new P. T. Anderson movie and Mission Chinese with someone new when I’m 85. And I don’t think anyone will want to be doing […]</p>
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How in the world anyone can read that drivel long enough to get to the Mission Chinese reference is beyond me.
Painful, isn’t it?
I think she has a google alert for “mission chinese”.
Sadly, I read the entire piece. It felt a little like eating a huge bag of Cheetos and candy.
I really like your turn of phrase: “polarizing spew of unhappy humblebrag.”
tl;dr
tried. really tried. then i recognized the style. well, that particular, instantly-recognizable, familiar-yet-distant, stirring-of-memories style that we call in these parts the “failed novelist” and thus, inevitably, owing perhaps to a sleepiness rooted in a boredom I had known as a youth, or perhaps to the weariness of familiarity measured against old age, and surrendered, dutifully, willingly, to the only escape, that being sleep: black, silent, enveloping sleep.
I’d love to go to MC when I’m 85! What the heck is wrong with that? I mean if I can still eat solids.
Is Elizabeth Wurtzel someone One Needs To Know?
15 years ago, yes. Today? No.
Mission Chinese is disgusting. yuck
Incorrect, sir.
+1. Threw away my food.
Your loss. Mission Chinese is fucking delicious.
Well, I actually LOVE real Chinese food. I eat and cook it regularly. MC is not Chinese food and the hipster Guy Fieri who owns/runs it actually will tell you that himself. It was an exercise in media manipulation and life-style marketing. And you guys bought it. Food blows, but he’s a great marketing person.
Obvious troll is obv… oh, wait, that’s Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable’s comment. Sorry!
Not sure what you mean by “real” Chinese food, but if you mean “traditional”, then you are absolutely correct, it is not traditional Chinese food in any way.
HOWEVER, it *IS* fucking delicious.
Might be obvious, but astute. And yes, real equates traditional.
Agreed. Good, but definitely overrated
Sure if you like blowing lava out of your ass the following morning.
If the moderately spicy food they serve there has that kind of effect on you, you might want to check with your doctor, cuz that’s abnormal.
COOL STORY WHERE IS THE XLB IN THE MISSION. MISSION NEEDS A CHINATOWN.