Born in rural Western Australia, Buchanan grew up in the suburbs of Perth. He did his BA and PhD in the English and Comparative Literature program at Murdoch University, graduating in 1995. His PhD dissertation, entitled, "Heterology: Towards a Transcendental Empiricist Approach to Cultural Studies" attempted to fuse the work of de Certeau and Deleuze for the purposes of doing cultural analysis
From the description, I expected to read something a bit funnier. It was a simple description (quoting from Nook) "Things get pretty crazy with a broken tandoor oven a dodgy supplier and the pressure of a big opening day." Maybe it was just the lateness of the night, but I found it a bit boring. It was like reading a job communications entry about trying to get a vendor to fix an oven, with a bit of irony thrown in at the end.