About

Editorializing at The Wall Post Times Street Journal Gazette

I’m about babies! And your motherfucking moms! And popped collars, trick! Don’t get me started on jokes, fool!

My name is Ilya Tabitha Monroe.  I’m 34 years old and I live in the illustrious Hancock Park-adjacent Koreatown.  This is my blog.

I have a brother named Vladimir, a father named Anthony and a mother named Renee.  They are exceedingly wonderful family unitbots.

Growing up I fell into the Funny But Alas Also Funny-Looking category (Exhibits A-B).  I was very chubby as a kid and grew out of it only after a spurt at 15.  By then, I’d been passed over too many times to mention as a girlfriend, date or crush, and knew that I was horribly damaged and would never have a boyfriend.  So, I did what any self-loathing fear-driven egoist would do, I repeatedly took actions to ensure my single-do(o)m [Wordplay!].  All under the guise of  too fat, too black, too white, too poor, too middle-class, too goofy-footed, too smart, too dumb, too mouthy, too funny, too sycophantic, or too independent.  Needless to say, it has worked up to now, but I’m headed in an excitingly new direction, so who knows how it’ll suss out.

(…And that, my friends, is the last you’ll hear about being single, wanting a fella, marriage, babies or the traditional trappings of being part of a couple.)

(…Only kidding.)

I have good funny friends in my life: really strong, intelligent and intuitive women who scare the shit out of me and make me want to be better than I am.

I have a family that is fractured but still funny and so full of love.  I strive every day to be more consistent with them and share more the banal and divine moments of my life.

I love funny (T-shirts: Busted, Glarkware, Threadless. People: Mike Birbiglia, Adam Carolla, Donald Glover, Tracy Morgan)  I read Ohnotheydidnt Jezebel and Gawker every day.  I listen to music. My beauty regimen consists of Prescriptives All Clean cleanser, Super Line Preventor and Continuous Action 24-Hour Moisture For Oilier Skin (and it works as I’m gorgeous).  I used to be a cinema-phile but times have gotten busy. I cook a lot of chicken.  I record a lot of television (Medium, Heroes, 30 Rock, Community, Parks and Recreation, Survivor, Project Runway, Top Chef, The Office, Saturday Night Live).

My mission with FancyAndAwesome is twelve-fold:

• Hone my writing skills (become less verbose)
• Make you laugh
• Show you what the internet is losing its shit over on any given day
• Determine whether or not adding ‘s’ to the end of words is indeed a comedic device
• Use it as yet another platform to say YES to the Universe in its wondrous glory and thrilling inscrutability

Thanks for coming along for the ride.  I hope you don’t get sick.

For questions and concerns about moms, collars or candy, you can give me a yellie on my cellie via email (zing!) at ilya(at)fancyandawesome(dot)com.