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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

Poetry has dropped so far out of the cultural mainstream in the U.S. that even seeing a great poem mangled, manhandled or misunderstood almost makes us smile. Every time a high-school commencement ...

Perhaps a Walt Whitman poem would have been more appropriate, given the role that a copy of Leaves Of Grass played in the turning point of its last season, but the teaser for the forthcoming final ...

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 ...