A gold medal won by sprinter Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics—a symbolic victory in the heart of Nazi Germany—has been bought by hard-partying billionaire Clinton pal Ron Burkle. What a, uh, fitting steward of this proud legacy.

Right this very minute, you can navigate to a website and place a bid for a chance to own an authentic old jumprope or dirty pair of sneakers or even a punching bag, punched by the actual fists of Bruce Lee.

...7,8, better stay up late. 9, 10, location, location, location.

Earlier this month, a rotten tooth yanked from John Lennon's head sold for $31,200 at auction. Now, an even more boring piece of Lennonalia is on the auction block: a to-do list written in black ink on a yellow legal pad.

In the excellent New York magazine 9/11 issue, Mark Lilla says, "The tragedy will be mourned, then trivialized, then commercialized, and then amnesia will set in." There are some tchotchkes that mourn, trivialize, and commercialize that tragedy all at once. Here is the tackiest 9/11 related crap we could find.

Now's your chance to own some American history: An auction house in California is selling the casket that held the body of John F. Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, from 1963 until 1981. Bidding starts at $1,000.

Hours after Prince William announced his engagement, England's "heritage souvenir" industry has flown into action. Commemorative royal wedding magazines! Royal wedding t-shirts! Royal wedding thimbles! A guide to the souvenirs already available, plus a few suggestions of our own, below.

Each day, we all wake up thinking, "Maybe today's the day I buy James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger." No longer: The car was sold at auction for $4 million today. Maybe you can put missiles on your Prius?

Remember eBay's auction of five years of Madonna diaries, supposedly from an ex-assistant's storage unit? Madge's claque got eBay to yank "Madonna's Personal Daily Journals" on the grounds that "they were the rightful owners." Good thing we saved the listing!

An eBay seller claims to be selling a corpus of material that used to belong to Melissa Crowe, Madonna's personal assistant "from years 1987-1996." If it's real, it's a memorabilia treasure trove. Selections from the multimillion-dollar listings below.

Here, the original turnstile from the old New York Times cafeteria can be yours for only $1,350. For the same price you could hire Tom Friedman to speak for just over one minute. [Olde Good Things]

Attend the tale of Mike Gilbert. The former sports agent is the maybe-owner of one of the stranger items of pop memorabilia: the suit O.J. Simpson was wearing when he was acquitted of murder, lo those fourteen years ago.

De Niro's Film Materials Collection Opens at Ransom Center [Univ of Texas]
You Touchin' My Stuff? De Niro Files Available [NYT]

"Boys pants, half-off." That's the punchline to one of our favorite Michael Jackson jokes. ("Why did Jackson go to Wal-Mart?") But now you really can own a pair of Jackson's underpants, via the creepiest eBay auction since Courtney Love's Papsmearpalooza For Charity. From Page Six:

Two Reddit founders are auctioning the Apple PowerBooks on which they programmed the social-news website. All proceeds are going to charity. [eBay]

229 is here! And as a service to those of you not working inside the furrowed cubicles of West 43rd Street, we've selected some highlights from the self-published tabloid farewell to the building that New York Times men and women have called home for the last 94 years. Like a scan of a Class B stock certificate! (Click to enlarge.) What else do we learn about the old building?