"Ozymandias Melancholia."

As I walked with friends in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (keyword: sylvan), we were surprised to be told that it was the capital of the whole gigantic state (gigantic should be spelled with a J {just my opinion}). So after getting on our android®s to check up on our forgotten grade-school civic-facts, we embarked on a tour of the two-mile radius downtown section…. At night!....Our tour guide was a stripper—believe it or not—lol. And that's a long story i don't feel like telling right now. Anyways, the capital of PA has these grand-but-decaying buildings that just brought Allen's Stardust Memories to mind. So I will embark on a project for the phrase.

It's a perfectly valid description of a particular phenomenon. It's that sad and depressed feeling you get when you realize that no matter how great and majestic and important something is at the time, in time it's going to pass. Just like the [Shelley] poem — eventually, time kills everything. It's just that rotting statue of Ozymandias, a once-great statue, and now a broken-down piece of marble in the desert. So you get a depressed feeling because it gives you a sense of the futility of life, that all that you're working for, and all the things that seem so meaningful, are nothing."

Woody Allen on His New Film To Rome With Love and Some Very Old Themes

By Karina Longworth Thursday, Jun 21 2012

Racism is broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others

"Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward other"- Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The article was in the Atlantic this past summer, and I felt like posting it way after all the election hubbub was over.  It's just great when you see someone make a statement this succinct  to sum up something you've felt victim to for a long time, but were not eloquent enough to express it this well. I mean this is a tweet hidden w/n a much larger article, and it's a timeless phrase that only had the misfortune of being part of the election white-noise of shallow quotes. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/fear-of-a-black-president/309064/
If you do end up checking out the article on the website, make sure you watch the video too, on the page, of Coates discussing the article with Scott Stossel.
As for Coates, he's a big deal blogger from Baltimore, and was listed in Time mag's list of best blogs.