Watchdog

I must admit, this job has been educational.

Take "noodling." I had no idea what it was until I was asked to review "Okie Noodling II," which will be out on DVD July 12 and be shown on MavTV later this summer.

The film features Bradley Beesley revisiting the subculture he profiled earlier this decade, in which people in Oklahoma and other nearby states catch fish barehanded. This often involves large catfish, and often involves painful bites on hands and fingers.

Is it worth watching? Sure, why not? But it makes more sense as a TV show than a DVD purchase, at least for we city (and suburban) folk.

I once caught a cockroach barehanded in Astoria. I don't think that sport has a name or a DVD attached to it. Yet.