Austin’s weirdness can be hard to put a value on, but that price must be calculated when disposing of the dearly departed’s estate. How do you do that in a city of artists, musicians, oddballs, and curio collectors? You call Carl McQueary of Estate Services of Austin. Or rather, those in the know will call him for you, because this self-described funeral director of stuff is known as the expert in the sort of ephemera that you’ll find in this town. A former museum curator, he’s not just there to slap a price tag on some old Tupperware, but to appreciate the worth of the strange and unusual – to make sure, as he always puts it, that it goes to the person it’s supposed to go to.
