Kit n' Kay Boodle and the late Albert Temple / Gene Catlow / Richard Katellis -

[eternal dog mongler]

I don’t know if you can or want to ask your friend who has Lexis, But I’d be curious to hear if Ol’ Albert had a will.

Unfortunately he got fired (for something unrelated to looking up dead furries) so that's closed to me.

If he did have a will it probably would have popped up at the time, though, so I imagine he died intestate.

 

[Tennis-Ball-Tony]

I’m still really surprised at the idea that the DeWalts were just able to roll up and start carting computer equipment out of the recently deceased home. I don’t know how all of that works, but some recent experiences in some of my friends lives showed that the idea of the next-door neighbor walking in and trying to take the dead guy’s property on the basis of “were practically family!“ is generally frowned upon if the will and probate haven’t been addressed.

I know Kage and older furs have halfway joked that they have friends that will come to their houses and take their hard drives if something bad happens to them, so there's probably a lot of truth to similar kinds of arrangements. Though with Albert, it's a groovy mystery because it's difficult to tell who close to him were real or who were fake.
The faking his death theory has a percentage of being true, a fur I knew "tripped in his shower and died", but the only problem is, there was no mention of the accident, his obituary, or any final services. He used his real name on old artwork, so either he used a fake name for years, or else he decided he wanted to sever all contacts with the fandom.

 

[Solid Snek]

I know Kage and older furs have halfway joked that they have friends that will come to their houses and take their hard drives if something bad happens to them, so there's probably a lot of truth to similar kinds of arrangements. Though with Albert, it's a groovy mystery because it's difficult to tell who close to him were real or who were fake.
The faking his death theory has a percentage of being true, a fur I knew "tripped in his shower, cut himself and bled out and died", but the only problem is, there was no mention of the accident, his obituary, or any final services. He used his real name on old artwork, so either he used a fake name for years, or else he decided he wanted to sever all contacts with the fandom.

"Joked".

The only thing certain in life is death, taxes, and oldschool furs like Kage and Albert having harddrives stuffed with incriminating material. Kage's no idiot. He's got a mafia cleaner system in place, for sure.

I kind of like the idea that Albert might have faked his death, though, and I hope it becomes part of furry lore. It'd be like Elvis sightings, if instead of singing, Elvis had spent his life drawing cum geysers.

 

[billydero]

Though with Albert, it's a groovy mystery because it's difficult to tell who close to him were real or who were fake.

See, that’s my point - I don’t mean to hammer the doubt key so hard or throw so much shade on the DeWalts but the fact is, Albert had a very elaborate web of deceptions in place. If he was faking friends and a girlfriend in such a detailed way, what else is fake; if his circle of actual people he knew in the fandom were keeping and abetting him with those secrets, what other secrets are there?

.... and to think the second episode of Hellava Boss gives Loona a little speech on ‘you don’t know what these ‘wholesome’ people do when you aren’t looking!’

"Joked".

The only thing certain in life is death, taxes, and oldschool furs like Kage and Albert having harddrives stuffed with incriminating material. Kage's no idiot. He's got a mafia cleaner system in place, for sure.

I laughed hard at that but we all know it’s the truth. Kage and the other old furries probably have a shitload of sketchy stuff on their hard drives that back in 2002 or whatever they figured ‘ah, nobody knows what a furry is and we’ll never be under any scrutiny’ when they saved it.

 

[Got2Hands]

See, that’s my point - I don’t mean to hammer the doubt key so hard or throw so much shade on the DeWalts but the fact is, Albert had a very elaborate web of deceptions in place. If he was faking friends and a girlfriend in such a detailed way, what else is fake; if his circle of actual people he knew in the fandom were keeping and abetting him with those secrets, what other secrets are there?

The DeWalts, by all indications, weren't in on his secret. They did suspect something was up (namely that witness protection doesn't work like that, and that if Catswhisker was in Jamaica, why the hell wasn't Temple with her?), but just kind of gave him the benefit of the doubt and let it slide in that way that people often do when someone they trust does something sketchy.

So they probably weren't helping him out in that regard, and it would be very weird of them to help him fake his own death (like I said, they're too intimately familiar with grief). I don't...think they'd protect his legacy if he had a secret stash of actual kiddie porn, because they've got four little kids they're incredibly protective of.

So what are they hiding? If I had to bet money on it, everything but real child porn.

It's all but a guarantee he was into cub stuff. The Stefanescu account that got banned was devoted to it, and even if by some incredible stretch that wasn't him, he spend the last months and weeks of his life on wolfdad account, interacting with his "new son" (an adult with a hamster character) and indulging in "Me and my dad relaxing with our wieners out" art.

Spoiler: That.

My theory: His hard drives were loaded with Pedo Lite material, reams and reams of cub porn, maybe even some stories and art featuring human kids. However, he was one of those pedophiles who tries their hardest not to victimize real kids, so he didn't have any pictures of them and if he ever faltered, he didn't keep evidence of it. That being the case, the DeWalts and his brothers decided to let him have his legacy.

 

[Solid Snek]

The DeWalts, by all indications, weren't in on his secret. They did suspect something was up (namely that witness protection doesn't work like that, and that if Catswhisker was in Jamaica, why the hell wasn't Temple with her?), but just kind of gave him the benefit of the doubt and let it slide in that way that people often do when someone they trust does something sketchy.

So they probably weren't helping him out in that regard, and it would be very weird of them to help him fake his own death (like I said, they're too intimately familiar with grief). I don't...think they'd protect his legacy if he had a secret stash of actual kiddie porn, because they've got four little kids they're incredibly protective of.

So what are they hiding? If I had to bet money on it, everything but real child porn.

It's all but a guarantee he was into cub stuff. The Stefanescu account that got banned was devoted to it, and even if by some incredible stretch that wasn't him, he spend the last months and weeks of his life on wolfdad account, interacting with his "new son" (an adult with a hamster character) and indulging in "Me and my dad relaxing with our wieners out" art.

Spoiler: That.

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My theory: His hard drives were loaded with Pedo Lite material, reams and reams of cub porn, maybe even some stories and art featuring human kids. However, he was one of those pedophiles who tries their hardest not to victimize real kids, so he didn't have any pictures of them and if he ever faltered, he didn't keep evidence of it. That being the case, the DeWalts and his brothers decide to let him have his legacy.

He was absolutely into cub art; I'm not familiar with all of his alts, but Kit n' Kay Boodle featured it numerous times. Same with the incest. He did have a strangely... wholesome (?) vibe in many of his comics, and I guess I can understand why people want to remember him fondly and give him the benefit of the doubt. He was a sympathetic pervert, like Edarem or Robert Crumb.

But there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Albert was a MAP. Certainly not an exclusive MAP, probably not even a predominant MAP, but I would be shocked if he hadn't spent good chunks of the 90s trading pizza on Usenet.

 

[Sharklaser]

Welp, on second thought, the 'feels' for this guy are starting to go away. Maybe (thunkful!) rotting for days on his couch while nobody noticed was exactly the end this dude needed.

 

[Trombonista]

This art from Jan 2001 is very iconic. Since the man is dead, his ghost probably wouldn't object to someone putting it on a shirt.

Spoiler: spoooge!

Kit n Kay Boodle - Wednesday , January 24 , 2001

kitnkayboodle.comicgenesis.com

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So this is the Furry Semen Jetpack. Not gonna lie, this isn't as bad as I thought it would be.

 

[Bubble Ba'ath]

Welp, on second thought, the 'feels' for this guy are starting to go away. Maybe (thunkful!) rotting for days on his couch while nobody noticed was exactly the end this dude needed.

Fictional cartoons most likely so I couldnt care less personally, but it certainly would explain a lot about how this all was handled.

 

[XYZpdq]

So this is the Furry Semen Jetpack. Not gonna lie, this isn't as bad as I thought it would be.

in the grand scheme of the onlines some of this is downright tame

 

[eternal dog mongler]

He was absolutely into cub art; I'm not familiar with all of his alts, but Kit n' Kay Boodle featured it numerous times. Same with the incest. He did have a strangely... wholesome (?) vibe in many of his comics, and I guess I can understand why people want to remember him fondly and give him the benefit of the doubt. He was a sympathetic pervert, like Edarem or Robert Crumb.

But there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Albert was a MAP. Certainly not an exclusive MAP, probably not even a predominant MAP, but I would be shocked if he hadn't spent good chunks of the 90s trading pizza on Usenet.

Kit n Kay gave me some cub porn vibes, but it was more in the very French "there's nothing wrong with adults being nude or having sex around children" way.

He may have indeed been attracted to kids, but unlike modern furries who put it all out there he hid it under layers of sexual repression.

 

[Bubble Ba'ath]

Finally occurred to me to check the worlds douchiest website, LinkedIn.

Well, the hoard of computers has a plausible explanation at least and may be at least partially professional in nature.

 

[Got2Hands]

Finally occurred to me to check the worlds douchiest website, LinkedIn.


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Well, the hoard of computers has a plausible explanation at least and may be at least partially professional in nature.

It also confirms that Albert Temple was his real name. Not surprising that he worked in computers -- a lot of old furries do -- but it's weird to see him in pictures outside of the one posted on his webcomic. He just looks like a normal, nice old guy in a nice suit.

 

[Tennis-Ball-Tony]

Finally occurred to me to check the worlds douchiest website, LinkedIn.


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Well, the hoard of computers has a plausible explanation at least and may be at least partially professional in nature.

Oh now this is interesting. Plugging in "Signature Technology Group, Inc." into the Wayback Machine shows some usage, but only around June 2004 does it show anything of substance. The rest come up with errors or no information.

This is probably one of those old-furry things of making a webpage for a "company" you "work for" in order to boost your standing.

ETA: Seems like the last job listed with an appliance tech from Sears in 2003 after being a "Customer Engineer" at IBM for 23 years. After he lost his job at IBM, he just sort of checked out. Inheritance? Or some sort of payoff from IBM?

 

[Bubble Ba'ath]

Oh now this is interesting. Plugging in "Signature Technology Group, Inc." into the Wayback Machine shows some usage, but only around June 2004 does it show anything of substance. The rest come up with errors or no information.

This is probably one of those old-furry things of making a webpage for a "company" you "work for" in order to boost your standing.

ETA: Seems like the last job listed with an appliance tech from Sears in 2003 after being a "Customer Engineer" at IBM for 23 years. After he lost his job at IBM, he just sort of checked out. Inheritance? Or some sort of payoff from IBM?

Yiffburg ambassadorial stipend.

For what its worth, a lot of jobs, if one started before the Reagan Era, often offer really good benefits and early retirement. Alternatively (or concurrently) some industries like tech used to give older people a sweet deal to retire early to make room for younger people if they were willing to train them. This can mean getting a lifelong pension way before you would think most could get such a thing. I know someone's parent who had this happen to them.

 

[Bubble Ba'ath]

Contemporary searches imply it might be this though:

Or, less likely, a Malaysian company with some international branches.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

Yiffburg ambassadorial stipend.

For what its worth, a lot of jobs, if one started before the Reagan Era, often offer really good benefits and early retirement. Alternatively (or concurrently) some industries like tech used to give older people a sweet deal to retire early to make room for younger people if they were willing to train them. This can mean getting a lifelong pension way before you would think most could get such a thing. I know someone's parent who had this happen to them.

If that were the case, I doubt he'd decide to repair dishwashers for Sears.

It's sad, actually. It looks like he got booted out of a career that he enjoyed and spent the last two or three years of his life drawing horrifying slugmonsters to an increasingly uninterested audience.

 

[L50LasPak]

Or some sort of payoff from IBM?

If that were the case, I doubt he'd decide to repair dishwashers for Sears.

My hometown is one of the last remaining oldstyle IBM Towns and I can tell you guys that those old fuckers get some serious benefit packages. After 20 years of service he at least got a nice big fat severance check and depending on the era they might have paid him for unused vacation days too.

That said, you know what they say about how retirement money doesn't last forever if you plan on living longer than the next 15 years. Either that or he became one of those people who picks up a job after retirement just to do something with themselves.