I bet this is one of the best public pools in the country. It sits right next to Puget Sound and saltwater is pumped into it, so you float better. To get there, you hike a little, either through woodsy Lincoln Park or along the beach. And it has a slide, a high dive, a low dive, and one very dark-skinned regular who sits at the deep end between dips. Somebody should find out who he is and how he has that much time. (Colman Pool, 8603 Fauntleroy Way SW, 684-7494. Noon—7 pm, $3.75.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...