Tag archives: Pot shots

Not A Prayer
By Ashleigh Brilliant   |   October 28, 2025

People who have some kind of religious feelings often believe that they can communicate with their Deity – and some even believe that their prayers can in some way influence human events, or even non-human, such as the weather. As practiced in most cultures today, there seems to be little harm in such beliefs. But […]

Ashleigh’s Brilliant Summer
By Jeff Wing   |   October 7, 2025

“If I can survive death, I can probably survive anything.” – Ashleigh Brilliant[9 December, 1933 –24 September, 2025], Pot-Shot® # 805 A footloose former teacher with the unlikely name Ashleigh Brilliant grabs his portable microphone, bullhorn, and milk crate and bounds down the stairs. The date is May 21, 1967 – yeah, “The Summer of […]

Regrets
By Ashleigh Brilliant   |   January 18, 2022

Life would be very empty, if we had nothing to regret. The most celebrated song of Edith Piaf, France’s most famous singer-songwriter, was “Non, je ne regrette rien” (“No, I regret nothing”). But sadly, she had plenty to regret, dying in 1963 aged only 47, after many years of alcohol and drug abuse. Does the […]