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We’re accepting entries to LitWit Challenge 2.12: The Birds and The Bees until 11.59 tonight.

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My white tabby Mat is the sweetest cat, but our oven-like weather is making even Mat cranky. Yesterday I woke up because he was breathing on my face.

“I want my breakfast,” he said (telepathically).

“There’s food in your bowl, go eat. I’m still sleeping.”

“My bowl must be full. You have to top up the kibble.”

“Later, don’t be like your neurotic human mother.”

“I want a full bowl of kibble.”

“Zzzzzz.”

Whack! He smacked my forehead. Realizing what he had done, he ran out of the room. A chase ensued. No more sleep.

Among the stolen: La Pastorale by Henri Matisse

In the dead of Wednesday night, as the Eiffel Tower cast its golden beam from across the Seine, a man emerged from the shadows to break into the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Dressed in black and with a mask covering his face, he cut a padlock on the gate and smashed a window to get inside. Once there, he set to work.

By the time museum guards noticed something amiss, shortly before 7am, the lone thief was long gone – and with him a stunningly valuable haul of artworks worth hundreds of millions of euros.

Read The French job—Paris art theft carried out by lone robber, in the Guardian, then Jonathan Jones on what we have lost.

Lowboy by John Wray

Our second entry to the Prince of Persia costume design competition pays homage to an ubiquitous and very large pop personality.

Designer: Alrey.

More entries! More! Email them to urban.matthias@gmail.com. Deadline: Noon of Wednesday, 26 May 2010.

In case you haven’t seen it yet, here is Bitoy’s Bathroom Dance.

Tahar Rahim stars as Malik in A Prophet, a film by Jacques Audiard.

Free Man in Prison, in Emotional Weather Report today in the Star.

At the Joint Session of Congress, 20 May 2010

Text dialogue

Me: Ay! Bad Russell Crowe impression all over TV. Your heart. (Bypass in January)

Me: Or an orinola on your head.