Cranky Old Mission Guy notes:

What's up at The Sycamore? The much-tagged-over Banksy is no more, but the awful brown color remains, with the queasy addition of loads of yellow and violet. Baskin-Robbins, eat your heart out!

Judgment aside, the mural appears to be dedicated to fried eggs having fun.

Apparently fun fried egg activities include kick flips:

Painting walls:

and apparently getting impaled by street signs (see above).

And in case you're not down with the shell spawn of barnyard fowl, the new mural includes fleeing root vegetables.

[All photos by Cranky Old Mission Guy]

Banksy's “This is where I draw the line” on the side of the Red Vic got buffed a week or so ago after being up for nearly a year.  Now, I'd probably be more alarmed about this if I ever went up to the Upper Haight to admire street art.  Or if I ever went up to the Upper Haight for any reason at all.  But what amazes me about this particular instance of street art disappearing is that people have already begun 'defending' his work's memory—or at least going up against the property owner—as if it was some sort of human rights abuse to cover it up.  “Nobody's finished we aint even begun.”  Oh shittt, I can see the property owner pissing his pants all the way from the Mission.

For the unfamiliar:

(First photo by Brian Brooks | Second photo by Sarah Sosiak)

Over the past few months, I've seen dozens of photos of this shopkeeper maintaining the prized Banksy on the side of his establishment.  Scraping off stickers, washing off spraypaint, painting the wall around it; you'd almost think he created the art himself.

I'm sure Banksy can't help but laugh at this peculiar situation himself.  Had this piece been put up by anyone else, it'd be deemed vandalism and painted over immediately.  Instead, his artwork is cared for through paint bucket and tagging attacks, gratis.

(photo and title inspiration by Brandon Doran)

Reader Jessica B. snapped this the other night:

Sorry for the shitty cellphone-at-dusk pic. The pig's eye is a dollar sign. SNAP!

Next to the Indian on Sycamore at Mission.

This is the second hit we've seen this week, the first being a raccoon in Chinatown.  I guess we can start looking forward to more badass stencil art littering our walls for weeks to come?