The "Giant Legs of Amarillo" (aka Ozymandias) sometimes wear striped athletic socks, sometimes are decorated with psychedelic spray-painted tattoos, but always the bodiless limbs hold up the expansive ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Just off the highway heading south on I-27 out of Amarillo are two gigantic legs in ...

Look on my blog post, ye Mighty, and despair! A few days ago, AMC posted a trailer for the final season of TV’s most addictive show, ‘Breaking Bad.’ “Ozymandias” was written in 1818 by Percy Bysshe ...

The new trailer for the final season of Breaking Bad features Walter White reading Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias.” That short poem’s central theme is about the decline of leaders, and of their ...

For some quirky reason, one of my favorite poems of all time has been “Ozymandias” by the eccentric English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who lived from 1792-1822. Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is ...

If you struggle to memorize whole poems, as some of us do, it’s still efficacious to remember bits and pieces, to treasure up and produce at need. Into every life, at some time or other, will surely ...

There’s a crucial moment in Breaking Bad when Jesse, unsure of his partner’s motivations, asks Walt a simple question: “Are we in the meth business or the money business?” Walt’s chilling reply: ...

Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Watchmen‘s third episode and Lady Trieu. HBO “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Adrian Veidt took his superhero name from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ...

Last night wasn’t the first time Breaking Bad has used a ten-cent word for an episode title (see: last week’s mouthful, “To’hajiilee”) but, for those who didn’t pay attention during English Poetry 101 ...

Pulling up the full text of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s famous poem “Ozymandias” seems appropriate here. As visions of ruined monuments and abandoned kingdoms fill your head, please consider what may be ...