Lam, Lacamo, Love
- Paulie
- Feb 5, 2023
- 5 min read
Updated: Jul 2
Let’s get straight to the point - do you think aliens exist? Statistically speaking the answer is likely yes. Annoying nerds like Neil Degrasse Tyson tell us it’s more likely than not. The question really is, how will our first interaction go? Will we be besties immediately? Will they find us sexy, or more like potential domesticated pets? Or will they terraform our entire planet to harvest natural resources, leaving a lump of rock and ash that can’t possible testify to the horrors our species has finally succumbed to? We’ve been talking about aliens since the beginning of time really which is ironic because presumably aliens could not currently give less of a fuck about us.
What’s your favourite depiction of an alien? The iconography of the UFO and the alien has taken many forms over the years but obviously the most long-lasting and influential alien is the big grey bitch. The grey, bulbous headed alien evolved from multiple sources including an occultist who met a celestial forehead merchant called…"Lam” back in 1917. When World War One broke out, said occultist Aleister Crowley shipped himself to the United States and “continued experimenting with sex magic, through the use of masturbation, female prostitutes, and male clients of a Turkish bathhouse”. A few years later, a doctor prescribed Crowley heroin as a treatment for his asthma. This entire letter could be about Crowley honestly but we’ll put a pin in him for now. In any case, a pretty solid origin story for Lam and its people.
