Tallahassee, FL—Hustling in the shadows of top fly tyers like Charlie Barr, Stevie Ray Merkin, and that guy who made worms sparkle isn’t easy. So when 42-year-old vise jockey Jimmy Proctor exchanged his bobbin for an embroidery hoop, no one was too surprised.

Friends say the turning point came after a Clear Cure Goo incident landed Jimmy in the ICU. Surfing Pinterest during recovery he stumbled upon Thug Life—the cross stitch wall-hanger that’s been a real hit in the Bay Area. “It was like Tupac’s ghost took a shit in grandma’s den,” Jimmy says. “It totally spoke to me.” Soon after, he whip-finished a last batch of nymphs for the shop and threw his jungle cock on eBay. His seminal needlepoint piece, a decorative cushion titled Troll Smoking a Bowl, recently sold for fifty bucks on Etsy. Jimmy’s digital store now houses a range of inspirations from YOLO to Unicorn Farts. It also dabbles in the erotic. “He was always particular about anatomical correctness,” notes local high school art teacher, Timothy Baggins. “We couldn’t be more proud.”

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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