The Mexican Year is a fictional blog about a chance encounter in Tijuana. Nick is a jaded American graduate student committed to his doctoral research and not much else. Nooshin is a married Iranian-American girl boxed in by her husband, her family, and her choices. They cross paths when they cross the border, two strangers who find themselves journeying into Tijuana and across Mexico, sometimes together, sometimes apart.
I’m Odin Soli, a thirtysomething family guy and technology executive based in Minnesota. I’ve been exploring the intersection of writing and the Internet since the mid-1990s. I used to publish a million words a year, but I’ve slowed down.
My best-known project to date is Plain Layne (2001-2004), which was called everything from “best soap opera on the Internet” to the textural predecessor of lonelygirl15. It was a fictional blog that touched the lives of over 500,000 people and received media coverage in Macleans, TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Haaretz, Der Spiegel, National Public Radio, San Jose Mercury News, St. Paul Pioneer Press, and City Pages. My prior projects include The Sex Pistols are Alive and Well and Living in Sohatsenango (2000-2001), Trotsky in Exile (1999-2000), One Man, Two Women, and 6 Million Lines of Code (1998), and Goodbye Yugoslavia (1995-1997).
I have several goals with The Mexican Year. Considering this is version 1.2, the most important is just finishing.
