UberPocky was originally going to be a web comic created by myself Zero and Zraya who now runs The Fresh Muslim. We are great friends in real life. I was going to write the story while he drew it. It was an attempt, we started at it, in fact he started at it. It went along somewhat well for a couple of comics but then fell apart.

When I realized it wasn’t going to work, mainly because we stopped caring, I asked if I could make UberPocky my own. He said yes, and I started migrating my writings over here from my old website, which had a URL way to long to use.

This website serves a somewhat interesting purpose. I am slowly writing my book and putting it online here. I am very interested in politics, specifically U.S. & Illinois Politics, so I blog on that topic quite a bit. I may take up other news I’m interested in. I will every once in a while take excerpts from my religious journals and put them on my website. Really, it serves any purpose I want it to serve. This site is sometimes as scatterbrained as I am.

The name derives from a Japanese candy called pocky (linked to the Wikipedia article). Here is a quick description copypasta from the Wikipedia: “Pocky (ポッキー pokkī) (pronounced [pokːiː] in Japanese) is a Japanese snack food produced by the Ezaki Glico Company of Japan. It was first sold in 1965, and consists of a biscuit stick coated with chocolate. Pocky was an instant hit among Japanese teenagers, and brought in sales of 30 billion yen in its first two years. The name was changed to “Pocky”, after the Japanese onomatopoetic word for the sound Pocky makes when bitten, pokkin (ポッキン).”

We both very much enjoy pocky. One of the few chocolate things I like (on a side note: I think I may be getting my sweet tooth back, I banished it as a child) So we were going to name our website something pocky… but what…? We thought for a while trying to come up with an adjective to describe pocky. Then it occurred to us:

Über comes from the German language. It is a cognate of both Latin super and Greek ύπερ (hyper), as well as English over (as in “overkill”). During the 2000s, über also became a synonym for super; e.g. überleet = superleet, generally with a slightly intensified meaning. Über is commonly written as uber in English, though with slightly different meaning. (Source: Über)

So there it is…. ÜberPocky. I stopped using the umlaut because it is horrid for Google.